Makua language

Makua language
Makua also spelled  Macua  or  Makhuwa 

      a Bantu language that is closely related to Lomwe and is spoken in northern Mozambique. The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch (Benue-Congo languages) of the Niger-Congo language family. Makua had about six million speakers in the late 20th century, and Lomwe two million.

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